Hoang Ngoc-Tuan

Born in Nha Trang, he arrived in Australia in 1983 as a refugee, after having been kept for 5 and a half years in various Vietnamese Communist prisons and re-education camps. In Australia, he re-educated himself for 14 years in various universities, and continued to devote his heart to the arts and his mind to the freedom of his motherland. He has come back to visit Vietnam a few times and has received unkind treatment from police. Since 2006, he has not returned to his motherland and thought that he should only do so only when she becomes a truly free and democratic country.

In Australia, he founded and edited the literary journal Tập Họp (1987-1989) and, with Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, was the co-editor of Việt, an important journal that existed from 1998 to 2001. Since 2002, he has been the co-editor of the groundbreaking webzine Tiền Vệ, the only Vietnamese literary journal that updates its contents daily.